"Norman Vine" wrote: > The thing to remember is that PostGIS is just a normal PostGRES > extension module so you still have the power of a general purpose > relational DB to use.
Correct, but the solution by referring from PostGIS shapes to BLOBs that contain the raster data is far not as smart as a 'native' storage method for geo-referenced raster data would be. I wonder (and I'l love to know because I assume there _is_ a strong reason) why the creators of the OpenGIS specs didn't cover raster data but only shapes (and their metadata) instead. That doesn't make sense to me because the need for a standard interface to raster data appears to be as urgent as the interface to vector data. Right ? If you'd agree to call PostGIS as sort of an implementation of "shapefile in a database", the analogue "geotiff in a database" would be nice, too. To other "spatially enabled" database servers cover raster data as well ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d